The reservoir pier at noon is our world. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info born and raised by the reservoir, and there is no one who can't swim.

The wharf was noisy and lively, and everyone was impatiently peeling themselves naked and plunging into the water like bees. Snorkeling, dog climbing, frog swimming, chasing and frolicking, splashing in the water.

There are also a lot of small tricks sitting on the stone bars on the pier, there are men and women, one by one looking enviously at the brothers who are fluttering in the reservoir. Girls and tricks that don't know how to water are strictly forbidden to go into the water unless they are brought by an adult in their own family.

As the saying goes, fire and water are ruthless, and that's no joke. This reservoir, which is more than ten miles long, irrigates hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland outside the mountains, looks blue and clear and docile, but people die in it every year.

There are those who can't think of finding short-sightedness, some are caused by accidents, and some are accidents. Most of the accidents are women and tricks, so it is strictly forbidden for tricks to play in the water in every household. When those of us who know how to swim in the water, there will always be one or more fathers and daddies on the shore who don't have to work. Regardless of whether there are juniors of their own families or not, they will pay attention to the movements in the reservoir from time to time. This is a habit and tradition in our village, and it has really worked, and it has saved several lives.

After a while, I swam away alone. I like to lie on my back on the water, only my eyes, nose and mouth are exposed, my eyes look at the blue sky, from time to time I sweep the verdant on both sides of the river with my residual vision, gently paddle my hands and feet in the water, and float with the white clouds that slowly change and fly, and feel the "buzzing" sound of slight vibration in the water in my ears, which is the most comfortable and forgetful at this time. Ever since I learned to swim at the age of eight, it's been a must-have for me at noon on my summer day.

I felt a loud vibration and at the same time heard a "rumbling" sound, it was a ship coming. I turned around, and in a moment I saw the group of ships rumbling around the mouth of the hill and heading for the dock. I swam to the dock with my hands and feet to avoid the middle channel, and the friends who were frolicking in the middle of the small warehouse also avoided both sides of the dock one by one, waiting for the engine and ship to dock.

I climbed up to the pier naked, and found my little pants in the mess of clothes, and the mountain carved in the reservoir shouted: "Monkey monkey, how long has it been washed, why did you go up?" "I ignored him.

My mother went back to school in the town two days ago. Approaching the end of the semester, the school is about to end the holidays, she has to go back to school to deal with some things, and by the way, she has to pick up some Chinese medicine for Sister Meiyu. If you say you're coming over today, you'll definitely be on the boat. I didn't want her to see me playing around in the water with my bare ass.

At this time, the boat was only a few dozen meters away from the dock, the machine had stopped roaring, and the boatman Li Changzi stood on the bow of the boat with a long bamboo pole in his hand, shouting at the little tricks in the water to quickly avoid it. I shook a few handfuls of water on my body and put on my white back, and by this time the boat was slowly approaching, and the passengers on the boat were stepping on the gangplank to get off the boat one after another.

I stared with wide eyes, mostly people from neighboring villages I didn't know. After they disembarked with baskets and burdens, they had to walk several miles or even a dozen miles or even more to reach their homes.

I saw my mother, she was carrying a bag in her left hand, and a little girl with two pigtails and a small floral skirt in her right hand, was coming out of the cabin, I beckoned and called "Qinniang", and my mother led the little girl to get down from the gangplank carefully, and said to the little girl: "Call brother, this is the brother Meng Xianghong I told you." Xianghong, this is your sister Yujiao. “

The little girl is a little similar to Ou Meiyu, she stared at me with dark eyes, a strange look, did not speak, I smiled at her, and said while reaching out to pick up the bag in my mother's hand: "Mother, I'll help you get it." The mother smiled and said, "I'll take it, it's not heavy." But he let go and gave me the bag. I slung the strap of my bag to my shoulder, and was about to lift my legs to walk, when I heard a shout from behind:

"Monkey wait for me."

I turned my head and saw Zhou Papi crawling up with his bare buttocks, lying on his crotch like a little worm. At this time, the mother and the little girl Ou Yujiao also turned their heads when they heard the scream, and Ou Yujiao turned her face shyly. But my mother smiled and said to me, "You were taking a bath like this just now, right?" “

I was embarrassed and yelled at Zhou Papi: "Zhou Papi, do you want to be shameless?" So many people running around with their bare butts, are you ashamed?"

In the village, eleven or twelve-year-old children like us never shy away from bathing in the water in the summer. Zhou Papi didn't understand why I was angry, and replied, "What's wrong?" Didn't you just come up like that? We are not adults, so what is there to be ashamed of? “

The mother took Ou Yujiao by the hand and walked up with a chuckle. I was so angry that I glared at Zhou Papi, who was rummaging through his clothes and pants with his bare buttocks, and followed my mother to the dock.

The pier is north of the village, and you have to pass by the school and the outlet store when you come up. At noon, the sun is poisoning, no one at the door of the consignment store, we turned the corner and walked to the village, passing by the oil factory, we met Gui Daddy from the door to go out, the old black dog followed him, saw the living people, "Wang" barked twice, the little girl Ou Yujiao saw his somewhat hideous face at first glance, and the old black dog with low teeth, frightened little body straight back. I barked: "Don't bark black dog" and then looked up and asked, "Daddy Gui, have you eaten?" “

The black dog walked up to me, wagging its tail slowly, staring at his mother and Xiao Yujiao vigilantly, I patted its head, it turned around and walked to the door, and sat down quietly. Father Gui looked at his mother and Ou Yujiao, and responded with his mouth: "It's a monkey, I've eaten it, heh, is this your relative?" The noodles are very raw. “

"It's my mother and sister, who came from the town and just got off the boat."

Father Gui snorted, and his mother smiled at him and said to Ou Yujiao: "Yujiao, call grandpa." “

Ou Yujiao bowed her head and said nothing. Daddy Gui smiled: "Little girl is a good sign, she was scared by the old man's ugly appearance, right?" Don't be afraid, my lonely old man looks ugly but never harmful. Monkey, did you just bathe in the reservoir? “

We had walked past him, and I looked back. Father Gui said behind him: "This year's river is not smooth, I'm afraid something will happen, try not to take a bath in the past two days, you are the king of cubs (note: the king of cubs, the meaning of Shan Ding's only son), you must pay attention, don't let your grandmother worry about it." “

I was stunned for a moment and didn't speak, then Zhou Papi panted and chased after me and asked, "What did he tell you?" I replied, "He said something would happen in the next two days, and asked us not to go to the shower." “

"Something? What will happen? He's a god, isn't he? Lazy to answer him. Zhou Papi disagreed.

"Who is he?" My mother asked.

"His name is Gui Xinliang, and he is the five guarantee household of our team, and he used to be an oilmaker and an oilmaker." Zhou Papi replied.

"I mean, what's the matter with the wound on his face?"

"I heard adults say that when I was young, I was cut off by shrapnel from artillery shells, and it became like that?" I replied.

"Huh? So he was a soldier and fought? “

"It's not clear, don't hear of it."

When I arrived at my door while talking, my mother had to go to Uncle Liang's house behind. I hurriedly grabbed and said, "Don't go, my mother, eat at my house at noon, my mother has already done it, waiting for you to come." Also, my sister has already come over. Isn't my sister with her these nights? My sister helped her over this morning. ”

"How good is that? Your mother is busy and tired from work, doesn't this delay the work? “

The mother in the house heard the voice and greeted her, and pulled her mother and said, "Look at what you said." Ouch, this is Xiao Yujiao? Sure enough, it's a good sign, and it's a bit like her sister. Come inside and get outside. ……“

The noon sun is so poisonous, like a fire outside, into the house with earthen walls and tiles, the cool breath comes to the face, indescribably cool and comfortable. The meal was already on the table, and my sister poured water for her mother and Xiao Yujiao to wipe their faces, and then served it to eat. Ou Yujiao was a little restrained at first, and she couldn't stand the pestering and questioning of her little sister Xiaojing, plus her mother and sister were by her side, so she let go after a while, and chattered with her sister with her rice bowl and went to the side to eat.

Just when I was about to finish eating, there was a commotion from outside, mixed with the cry of a woman, my mother put down the dishes and chopsticks and walked to the door to look out, turned her head and said to my mother-in-law: "Mother-in-law (local custom, also called in-law) You eat slowly, I'm afraid something happened to someone's family, I'll go and come back." "After saying that, he left, and warned me not to run around as he went.

We finished lunch in a state of apprehension, and when my sister cleaned up the table, my mother came back with red eyes, and said to my mother-in-law when she entered the door: "I am sorry (sorry for the sorrow, local language, meaning pity), I have only been born for a few days, and if I say no, it will be gone, isn't this asking for my grandmother's life?" He snorted and turned to me, and said viciously: "I warn you, Red Lady, if you find you going to bathe in the reservoir again, I will break your legs immediately." Do you hear me? “

Something must have happened to my little friend, and I was terrified and stared at Fawei's mother in horror.

It turned out that after I went ashore, those friends who had been forgetting to play in the water played tricks, climbed to the roof of the cabin of the ship one by one, and jumped into the water with a strange scream. The roof of the cabin is more than a foot high from the water, and it can sink deep if you jump straight down, which is exciting and fun, and we all like to jump.

There are more than ten or twenty people playing in the water at the dock today, everyone is scrambling to make a mess, Liu Xing of the fifth team did not surface after jumping down, no one noticed at the time, and when it was found, it had been more than ten minutes, and the adults on the shore rushed to rescue after hearing the news, and only ten minutes later were salvaged from the middle of the reservoir more than 20 meters away from the boat.

Liu Xing is only ten years old, he is in the fourth grade at school, and occasionally he has played with Hu Hansan and Liu Deyong, and I am so scared that my heart is pounding.

The mother sighed and said, "I didn't expect that the old oilman Gui was really right, but I didn't expect it to be on the star ......."

My mother looked at me with some surprise and said, "Old Gui oilman? Is it the person I just told you about? “

I nodded. My mother looked at me, "What did he say to you?" ”

The mother replied: "We just passed by his door, and he told Xianghong not to go to the reservoir to bathe in the past few days, I'm afraid something will happen." I didn't expect it to come true so soon. Who is he? Such a god? “

"Who is he? He is a childless and daughterless five-guarantee household, a hard-working half of the blind, but it is indeed a little strange to think about it, the day before yesterday he told me to pay attention, don't let the red lady go to the reservoir to play in the water, said that in the past few days, there has been a wet trick in front of his door, I can't see his face, I don't answer when I ask him, I'm afraid it's the ghost who is looking for a stand-in, it sounds weird and scary......"